introduction
user Natali@pioneers.lab
is member of IT staff , and would like to work on ESXI servers
HOW ??
option 01 : Direct Console user interface DCUI
this option include work on ESXI servers physically from Datacenter
which is good for
- first time to configure server identity
- enable or disable SSH , and some basic configurations
- also we could use this option for maintenance
but later : this option is impractical since it doesn’t provide us with much facility to manage server
option 02 : working on Shell directly [ESXI shell]
as we know : ESXI is unix based ,
so the most powerful management is SHELL
direct hell : means to open SHELL from ESXI server it self on Datacenter
working on SHELL is very powerful since it’s expand your capability to manage ESXI ,
BUT the bad thing : you have to work on server physically on Datacenter
don’t use direct shell until your have network issue and you are unable to work ESXI remotely
to work on Shell directly :
- open DCUI > troubleshooting
option > enable ESXI shell
- press Alt+F1 to open the log in page on the machine’s physical console.
- Provide credentials when prompted.
- Note: To return to the Direct Console User Interface press Alt-F2
option 03 : working on Shell remotely [SSH]
thi on of the most power techniques : ssh
secure shell SSH , working on port 22
it’s enable administrator to configure esxi shell remotely
but before configure ssh > please have a look to network diagram above
working on SHH , require the following :
- enable SSH from DCUI or from Web interface
- on network firewall [PFsense] : open port 22 for SSH
- on client computer install remote connection tool , we prefer to use putty
ESXI web client
http://172.16.100.151 or http://ESXI11
which is HTML version of web client
we will still using ESXI web client for next articles as default tools [beside of SSH]
until we learn how to install the great management [VCenter]
